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Reentrant · 4W ago

In the wars

A week or two ago I signed up for this weekend’s 12 km race in the Forest of Dean. This is a race where I don’t have to run 6 km to get points for my club, and inspired by the long-O antics of Marian White I thought I’d go for the good-value option of entering the [...]
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Reentrant · 1M ago

Not enough information

On Sunday, Droobers are hosting a regional event at Bentley. I’m sure it’ll be a great event, but entering for it was a bit of a leap in the dark. (Sorry for picking on this event – the problem it illustrates is true for more or less any regional event you care to mention.) To [...]
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Reentrant · 2M ago

“Join Chasers, learn to read”

Ahem. A short journey over to Nuneaton today for the Army event at Gamecock Barracks. The mix of housing, army buildings and open land means that some good courses can be planned there that keep you thinking. And the planner, John Middler, pulled off a bit of a coup by getting a load of us (includin
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Reentrant · 3M ago

Cleeve Hill

Down to the edge of the Cotswolds for a joint NGOC/BAOC event. Whoa, it felt cold up there! I kept my thick t-shirt and my hoodie on, put on my hat and my gloves, and headed off to the start. Luckily I’d judged the level of attire just right and enjoyed my hour out on the hill. [...]
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Reentrant · 3M ago

March in the Marches

Just a few weeks now to one of Harlequins’ big events this year. On Saturday 10 March there’s the first-ever Malvern urban event, and the day after it’s the Midlands Championships at Foxley & Garnstone, near Hereford. If you haven’t registered yet, why not do it now before you forget? The Championsh
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Reentrant · 3M ago

Wet-O

I wondered what this could be, but I think it’s just a problem with calculating distances to Ireland. By the way, does the site look the same for other people using it in Internet Explorer?
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Reentrant · 4M ago

More fun after dark

I’m not as keen as I used to be about street races, mainly because my knees aren’t brilliant, but (Famous last words) they don’t seem too bad at the moment and I got round the recent Wordsley race okay. Did quite well, in fact. I don’t want to say this too loudly, in case next [...]
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Reentrant · 4M ago

Sutton Night 2

This butterfly format meant it only took just over an hour to put out all the controls needed for an event with 5 courses, the longest being 6.4 km with 18 controls. Some thought just needs to go into the siting of the common control and into the positioning of the loops in order to avoid [...]
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Reentrant · 5M ago

(not) seeing red

Another thing to add to the list of things we ought to be getting right by now… There was a generally excellent HOC club championships at Stourport on Sunday. At the post-match do, Barry Houghton was poring over the map, trying to find the controls he’d missed. What made it harder for Barry, then an
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Reentrant · 5M ago

Shire Oak

Shire Oak Park is an old quarry on the edge of Brownhills, and one of the new O areas in Walsall mapped by Peels. As he’s already done at Fibbersley, Rough Wood and Barr Beacon, Barry McGowan has taken the lead in working with the council to get POCs and events going on these new areas, and all [...
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